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EDF Trading, a unit of the French utility and energy company, has named Sophie Ducoloner as a senior manager in its liquefied natural gas division after hiring her from Russia's Gazprom Marketing and Trading.
Origin Energy, a stakeholder in the Australia Pacific LNG plant in Queensland that recently shipped its first cargo, has issued a statement to the Sydney stock exchange to say it had "robust financing arrangements" to cope with the current oil and energy markets slump.
Australia's largest liquefied natural gas operator Woodside Petroleum said fourth-quarter sales revenue dropped just over 37 percent as the company shipped 318 LNG cargoes from its two operated plants.
BG Group of the UK said its LNG Shipping & Marketing business delivered 282 cargoes during 2015, an increase of 58 percent on 2014, in difficult market conditions as both BG and Royal Dutch Shell have given overviews of their latest earnings.
Sanchez Energy, the Houston-based company planning the first LNG project targeting shale-gas from the Eagle Ford play in South Texas, said it made further progress in the fourth quarter with the Catarina shale-gas wells underpinning the liquefaction plant.
A Canadian federal agency, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, has informed the nation's Environmental Assessment Agency that the Pacific NorthWest LNG project, led by Malaysia's Petronas, would have "a low potential" to adversely affect fish habitats.
A United States plan to help build liquefied natural gas infrastructure to coincide with increased LNG carrier traffic on the expanded waterway with US companies sought to submit tenders for a feasibility study.
Eagle LNG Partners said it had chosen US equipment-maker Cosmodyne of California to install a small-scale liquefaction plant at its facilities in Jacksonville, Florida, to make fuel mainly for the maritime market.
Chevron Corp. said it signed a preliminary accord with Chinese energy company ENN LNG Trading to supply cargoes over 10 years from the Australian Gorgon project currently undergoing commissioning.
UK-based LNG and energy engineering company Amec Foster Wheeler has begun its search for a new Chief Executive to replace Samir Brikho, who is stepping down amid a structural overhaul in the industry brought about by the oil price plunge.